ÅžiÅŸecam, a leading Turkish chemicals specialist, has approved a major investment of around EUR 100 million to build a new glass fibre plant in Turkey, which will have an annual production capacity of 70,000 metric tonnes, and is expected to become operational in the second half of 2018.

The ÅžiÅŸecam Glass Fibre business, originally Cam Elyaf Sanayii A.Åž., is now part of the Chemicals division of the ÅžiÅŸecam Group, and remains the sole manufacturer of glass fibres in Turkey from its existing glass fibre furnaces and production plant in Gebze, Kocaeli, located 65 km south east of Istanbul, supplying customers in 30 countries worldwide. 

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